Over 40 young refugees to get scholarships in Greece
The U.S. Embassy in Athens has announced it is offering scholarship to refugees and migrants with financial needs. More than 40 students are starting their classes this month.
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French cabinet to table new, 'balanced' immigration legislation
With plans for the expulsion of "delinquent foreigners," the overhaul of France's asylum system, and an effort to bring some undocumented workers in from the cold, the French government's latest immigration bill will be presented to1
Hundreds protest construction of asylum accommodation in north Germany
There have been riots in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as part of a protest against plans for asylum accommodation.
UK: Over 100 organizations call for independent probe into missing migrant children
More than 100 associations have demanded the British government to conduct "an urgent independent investigation" over the scores of missing child asylum seekers. The children were kept in hotels which the organizations slammed as "u1
Cameroonian transgender activist arrives in Belgium after receiving asylum
A transgender activist from Cameroon has arrived in Belgium, where she was given asylum. Despite suffering violent attacks, she had to spend over a year in exile in Nigeria while her claim in Belgium was being processed.